Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 63 63
Rank change year-on-year -55 0 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,526 1,890 3,654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 4.30% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 4.61% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 1,032 2,740
10th Percentile £48,289 £49,750 £43,700
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,752
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,223 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -54 1,388 £75,000 - 516
London +1 705 £85,000 - 230
UK excluding London -109 695 £67,500 -3.57% 334
Work from Home -31 654 £70,000 - 316
North of England -59 308 £69,310 -4.07% 106
South East -66 169 £67,500 -3.57% 102
North West -64 150 £72,500 - 68
Yorkshire -20 102 £69,310 -5.94% 23
Midlands -85 73 £68,000 +4.62% 40
South West -91 64 £52,500 -23.39% 42
North East +4 56 £65,000 -3.04% 15
West Midlands -73 52 £77,500 +10.71% 24
East of England -26 40 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -73 31 £62,500 -18.73% 13
East Midlands -67 20 £66,000 +5.60% 16
Northern Ireland -32 9 £62,500 +25.00% 11
Wales -39 8 £53,171 +2.25% 8
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.11%) Confluence
3 14 (0.92%) Apache
3 14 (0.92%) IIS
3 14 (0.92%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.85%) CMS
4 13 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (0.72%) JBoss
6 7 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.39%) WordPress
8 5 (0.33%) Drupal
8 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.26%) Camunda
9 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.20%) Liferay
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.46%) Maya
3 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.066%) Actimize
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.066%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 821 (53.80%) AWS
2 628 (41.15%) Azure
3 308 (20.18%) GCP
4 252 (16.51%) Serverless
5 152 (9.96%) SaaS
6 125 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (7.99%) GitHub
8 119 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (7.08%) Amazon S3
10 94 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
13 71 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
14 65 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
16 49 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 46 (3.01%) Azure AKS
18 45 (2.95%) Datadog
19 40 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
19 40 (2.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.93%) Broadband
2 20 (1.31%) Network Security
3 10 (0.66%) DNS
3 10 (0.66%) HTTP
3 10 (0.66%) MQTT
4 8 (0.52%) Internet
4 8 (0.52%) VPN
5 7 (0.46%) AMQP
5 7 (0.46%) Firewall
6 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.39%) DHCP
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.33%) LTE
8 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.20%) Modbus
8 3 (0.20%) RFID
8 3 (0.20%) SNMP
8 3 (0.20%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (12.98%) NoSQL
2 190 (12.45%) MongoDB
3 183 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (5.90%) MySQL
5 82 (5.37%) SQL Server
6 75 (4.91%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (3.87%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.49%) Redis
12 33 (2.16%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.97%) Big Data
14 23 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.79%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.72%) Power BI
17 10 (0.66%) DB2
18 7 (0.46%) Hadoop
18 7 (0.46%) Tableau
19 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 193 (12.65%) Git
2 141 (9.24%) GitLab
3 129 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.60%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.88%) JIRA
6 43 (2.82%) JUnit
7 36 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 31 (2.03%) CircleCI
8 31 (2.03%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.90%) Mockito
10 28 (1.83%) Maven
11 23 (1.51%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.18%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.98%) Selenium
13 15 (0.98%) Vite
14 14 (0.92%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.92%) JMeter
15 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.46%) NUnit
16 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 439 (28.77%) Finance
2 299 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 159 (10.42%) Banking
4 130 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.49%) Law
6 96 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (5.31%) Retail
8 72 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (3.41%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.95%) Back Office
11 35 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.18%) Billing
13 18 (1.18%) Legal
14 17 (1.11%) Advertising
14 17 (1.11%) Marketing
15 15 (0.98%) Games
16 14 (0.92%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.79%) Front Office
18 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 524 (34.34%) Developer
2 403 (26.41%) Senior
3 318 (20.84%) Software Engineer
4 222 (14.55%) Architect
5 204 (13.37%) Lead
6 138 (9.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 131 (8.58%) Java Developer
8 123 (8.06%) Senior Developer
9 108 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 105 (6.88%) Java Engineer
11 102 (6.68%) .NET Developer
12 85 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 59 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 55 (3.60%) Lead Developer
15 55 (3.60%) Principal Engineer
16 50 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.08%) C# Developer
18 46 (3.01%) Senior Java Engineer
19 45 (2.95%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (21.95%) React
2 328 (21.49%) .NET
3 279 (18.28%) RESTful
4 265 (17.37%) Node.js
5 252 (16.51%) Spring
6 228 (14.94%) Spring Boot
7 219 (14.35%) REST
8 195 (12.78%) Kafka
9 128 (8.39%) AngularJS
10 112 (7.34%) .NET Core
11 102 (6.68%) ASP.NET
12 98 (6.42%) Vue
13 90 (5.90%) gRPC
14 85 (5.57%) HTML
15 78 (5.11%) ASP.NET Core
16 75 (4.91%) CSS
17 66 (4.33%) .NET Framework
17 66 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
18 53 (3.47%) OAuth
19 52 (3.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 425 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 261 (17.10%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 80 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.01%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.95%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.49%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.42%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.70%) Blockchain
12 26 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.64%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.44%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.31%) AI Agents
17 19 (1.25%) Onboarding
17 19 (1.25%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.90%) Linux
2 41 (2.69%) Windows
3 20 (1.31%) Unix
4 9 (0.59%) Android
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Debian
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.066%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (49.34%) CI/CD
2 629 (41.22%) Agile
3 566 (37.09%) Software Engineering
4 556 (36.44%) DevOps
5 388 (25.43%) Containerisation
6 377 (24.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 358 (23.46%) Mentoring
8 308 (20.18%) Test Automation
9 296 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (19.13%) Event-Driven
11 286 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
12 285 (18.68%) AI
13 268 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 198 (12.98%) Scrum
15 182 (11.93%) Coaching
16 180 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 180 (11.80%) Technical Leadership
17 173 (11.34%) Computer Science
18 171 (11.21%) TDD
19 170 (11.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 517 (33.88%) Java
2 405 (26.54%) Python
3 335 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 329 (21.56%) SQL
5 305 (19.99%) C#
6 242 (15.86%) TypeScript
7 127 (8.32%) Go
8 51 (3.34%) Scala
9 48 (3.15%) C++
10 47 (3.08%) PHP
11 41 (2.69%) Bash
12 32 (2.10%) C
13 28 (1.83%) Ruby
14 25 (1.64%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.51%) Rust
16 19 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.25%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.18%) PowerShell
18 14 (0.92%) Groovy
19 11 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 182 (11.93%) Degree
2 172 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 111 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 98 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 28 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.64%) CISSP
9 23 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.72%) CISM
15 8 (0.52%) PhD
16 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.33%) GIAC
17 5 (0.33%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.55%) QA
2 37 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.10%) GDPR
4 31 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.51%) NIST
7 19 (1.25%) SOC 2
8 12 (0.79%) GRC
9 11 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.66%) NCSC
10 10 (0.66%) WCAG
11 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.33%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) SLA
16 1 (0.066%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.066%) Solvency II
System Software
1 453 (29.69%) Docker
2 14 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.066%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 485 (31.78%) Kubernetes
2 289 (18.94%) Terraform
3 86 (5.64%) Ansible
4 85 (5.57%) Grafana
5 47 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.64%) Argo
7 23 (1.51%) Kibana
8 18 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.85%) Puppet
10 10 (0.66%) Cilium
11 9 (0.59%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
12 4 (0.26%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 162 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.33%) Google
3 53 (3.47%) Oracle
4 45 (2.95%) Typelevel
5 22 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.38%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.18%) Splunk
8 16 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.92%) IBM
10 12 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.66%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.59%) Cisco
13 9 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.59%) SAP
14 8 (0.52%) Adobe
15 7 (0.46%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.46%) HubSpot
16 6 (0.39%) F5
16 6 (0.39%) ServiceNow